Investing in natural history collections could help to supercharge UK science. More than 130 million objects, collected over hundreds of years, are held in these collections. This makes them a ...

Museums like the Smithsonian and Natural History Museum are using digital transformation to turn massive legacy collections into accessible, collaborative research tools.

A new bug is joining the shelves of the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s 7-million-strong insect collection, one made not of antennae and exoskeleton, but of wires and lenses: “Lightning Bug,” a ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History safeguards 148 million objects, yet 99% of them remain hidden from public view in secure areas known as collections. Behind the scenes, these ...

Scientists from the Natural History Museum (NHM) deep dive into the uses and users of natural history collections held in the UK Call for investment to secure the UK’s stance as a world superpower in ...

Thanks to cutting-edge technology, Smithsonian scientists provide worldwide access to some of the museum’s most delicate specimens Raven Capone Benko The National Museum of Natural History safeguards ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (WIBW) - Researchers at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute are digitizing records of African plants in herbaria and museums across the U.S. University of Kansas said over ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. How can dried plant specimens protect a rainforest? In myriad ways. Kept in collections known as herbariums, they store critical data on the ...

There are more than 1,000 natural history museums around the world, each tasked with studying and preserving a portion of our planet’s natural and cultural heritage. Notes From Nature is an online ...

In an unassuming industrial building in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago lie nearly 400,000 meticulously preserved natural specimens. The birds, mammals, plants, fossils and mollusks make up the ...

Last fall, the Yale Peabody Museum had a surplus of cigar boxes — dozens of them. It’s not that folks there were lighting up stogies left and right, though. The boxes had served a scientific purpose: ...

This article was originally published on Undark. In a dusty room in central Florida, countless millipedes, centipedes, and other creepy-crawlies sit in specimen jars, rotting. The invertebrates are ...